Renee Olstead Quotes
I encourage all of you to seek out teachers and mentors that challenge you to think for yourself and guide you to find your own voice.
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Well I look for an accompanist that does his work well, this to begin.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I think the genetics of being Irish are that you sort of prefer when it's rainy and cloudy. It's just genetic.
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As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.
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How strange a thing like that happens to a man. He dabbles in something and does not realise that it is his life.
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I think we have some serious problems now, but, if you look back over the last thirty or forty years that my book deals with, I think we are in better shape now than we would have been if all of those cases had not come down.
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Whatever you build, you're building for the family - not with an eye toward getting away, but with an eye toward adding to the family pie.
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I'm just being myself. To me, that people are interested in Jenni, not necessarily the artist, but the woman... it amazes me still.
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I'm kind of a laugh junkie. It's what I appreciate in life, because life is rich and sometimes it's hard, and I really, really love to laugh and gravitate towards people who make me laugh.
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Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.
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No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.
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The one size fits all approach of standardized testing is convenient but lazy.
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I think to be a good songwriter, you have to be able to play an instrument.
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I didn't know initially whether I'd like doing TV and whether I'd be able to work with other people. I've always done my own thing. I've never put myself into that situation, but it's the most fun I've had in years.
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I love the protest signs protected by the First Amendment - some of them humorous, some of them passionate, some factual, some entirely incorrect - all of them free ideas.
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I went seven years between 2002 and 2009 without winning. Then I did win in '09.
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I've taken that with me since working with him; in order to be William Hurt, you have use every moment like he does.
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Both of my grandmothers were diagnosed with breast cancer - one is a survivor and one passed away.
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Nothing made me happier than to hear from literally hundreds of listeners who would tell me how much the commentaries revealed about a subject they otherwise had never cared much for.
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When we save the rain forest, the polar bear, and Al Gore, we should party so hard that Canada calls the cops on us for noise.
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I mean, people who watch Jon Stewart's show every night don't think he went far enough, because he couldn't do what he does on his show every night, because it's a different job. The same thing with Chris Rock. He can't come out and do a tossed-salad routine, the way he does on his HBO shows, because this is the Academy Awards.
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Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.
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Sustainability is a political choice, not a technical one. It's not a question of whether we can be sustainable, but whether we choose to be
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I encourage all of you to seek out teachers and mentors that challenge you to think for yourself and guide you to find your own voice.
